EDM fans, rejoice: The Contact Winter Music Festival is returning for not one, but two days this year at BC Place.
The Boxing Day event that brought 12,000 people to the stadium last year with performances by deadmau5 and Nero is upping the ante in 2013 with powerhouse electro performers Skrillex, Kaskade and Diplo in the mix.
The all-ages festival, produced by Live Nation and Blueprint Events, will take place Dec. 26-27 ... Read More …

Not quite completely sold on electronic music being all the rage yet? How about this: The Contact Winter Music Festival, produced by Blueprint Events and Live Nation, is billed as the largest ever electronic concert in Western Canada, and it will take place on Boxing Day on the floor of BC Place in Vancouver.
The event will be headlined by Canadian electro favourite Deadmau5, with a lineup that will also feature Nero, ... Read More …

While bargain hunters still lined up for Boxing Day specials, this year many Canadians stayed home to cybershop.
Half of Canada’s Boxing Day shoppers made at least some of the Boxing Day purchases online with women more likely to shop online than men and the 55-plus crowd more likely to prefer shopping in stores rather than online.
That’s according to a survey by Ipsos Reid for Visa Canada, statistics that seemed to be borne out ... Read More …